Samsung has forecast that we are able to count on single SSD capability to be as excessive as 1PB inside the subsequent decade, a prediction which got here off the again of the corporate exhibiting a prototype 128TB SSD on the Flash reminiscence Summit in San Jose in 2022, calling it a “petabyte scale product”.
Whereas Samsung has since launched a 128TB SSD with a proprietary controller, and Silicon Movement has an SSD controller that may assist as much as 128TB, SSDs of that measurement stay disappointingly uncommon.
At CES 2024, Phison demonstrated a spread of SSDs and moveable SSD controllers, together with its X2 enterprise SSD platform. On the corporate’s web site, that is listed as “world’s best-in-class Enterprise SSD” out there in capacities of 1.92TB to 61.44TB. Nevertheless, one thing that only a few individuals seen was the model on present at CES was listed as having as much as 128TB capability.
Not shouting about it… but!
Though particulars are very scarce past the data discovered on Phison’s media deck launched previous to the present, we all know that highlights of the X2 controller (past the huge capability) embrace:
- PCIe Gen5x4 Twin-Port
- TSMC 12nm Course of
- 16-Channels,
- 3D NAND
- Computational Storage Units (CSD)
We additionally know that it’ll are available in U.2, E3.S kind components.
Phision moreover revealed that its gadget delivers the most effective performance-per-watt, and boasts sequential learn speeds of over 14GB/s, sequential write speeds of 12GB/s, random learn speeds of 3000K IOPS, and random write speeds of 800K IOPS.
It’s clear by the dearth of fuss that Phison isn’t able to shout in regards to the up to date X2 simply but, however it’s a optimistic signal that 128TB SSDs are slowly making their option to the market, and it’ll certainly solely be a matter of time earlier than they begin to change into extra commonplace, even when 1PB drives stay a distant dream for now.
